Trivia on a windy day

Tonight I attended trivia night after missing last week's contest. The first contest of the night was half over by the time I arrived.

The wind was howling and pushed me hard during my walk to the bar. Rod just arrived shortly before the trivia contest had started, as with the strong wind, the fastest his Speed Dee delivery truck would travel back from Devils Lake was 55 mph into the wind. Rod said he had the 'pedal to the metal' to get up to 55 mph. Our team's name this night was: Blown Away.

Rod and Alan were with three other people they knew. One of them, Dan, was good at answers and provided over half our team's correct answers in the first contest before he had to leave to pick up his daughter. Still we did poorly as we only got 10 of 20 answers correct. We were still in the middle of the groups in scoring. The winning team only had 15 correct.

We did better in the second contest as we got 15 answers correct. Three winning teams tied with 18 correct. The tie breaker question was: "In what year did the FDA approve the Pill?" The lawyers/judge team (boo!) won as they were closest with a guess of 1962. The correct answer was 1960.

After the first contest, the losing teams applauded the winning team after they won. No one applauded the lawyers/judges team when they won the second contest.

Some of the questions:

1. What is the only word with three consecutive double pair of letters?
2. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female of what profession?
3. Brown Beauty was ridden by what famous rider?
4. What was the prior name of Hoover Dam?
5. Which mountains divide Europe from Asia?
6. Where was the first oil well drilled?
7. What is the largest grocery store chain?
8. Francisco Goya painted a portrait of what type of maja?
9. In the Stars Wars movie, who found and sold used robots?
10. Who starred in and directed, "Play Misty For Me"?
11. Jimmy Gilmer sang about the Sugar ____?
12. What initialed company is the largest producer of aluminum?
13. Which company is the largest grocery chain in the world?
    

Answers:

1. Bookkeeper
2. Doctor (I knew this having recently watched a western where a young woman wanted to be a doctor like Elizabeth Blackwell)
   
3. Paul Revere
4. Boulder Dam
5. Ural
6. Pennsylvania
7. Safeway
8. Nude. Though someone in the audience knew this answer and also knew he painted a clothed version of the maja.
9. Jawas (after seeing Stars Wars how many times, you'd think I'd remember their name. Instead the best I could come up with were Sand Raiders. Close, but no cigar.
   
10. Clint Eastwood
11. Shack
12. Ed said: Alcoa. I just found out he is wrong as Alcoa is the third largest producer of aluminum.
13. Ed said: Safeway (and so did our team). Rod was certain the correct answer was Wal-mart and just now he sent me a list confirming he was right. Safeway is number three.
    

The "quarters" trivia questions had better prizes this night. Neither I, nor anyone I knew, correctly answered any of them. For the final "quarters" trivia question, "How many times did Bill Withers repeat "I know" in the song "Ain't No Sunshine"?

Answer: 26